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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Zeena believes Mattie enjoys living in Starkfield only because ______________________________.
(a) Mattie has no other place to go.
(b) Mattie is in love with Ethan.
(c) Mattie has her sights set on marriage.
(d) Mattie can live rent-free with Zeena and Ethan.

2. With Mattie, Ethan feels ____________________.
(a) Brave enough to stand up to his wife.
(b) Bitter.
(c) Understood.
(d) Pressure to succeed.

3. Why is Zeena still awake when Ethan and Mattie arrive at home?
(a) She claims she felt so mean she could not sleep.
(b) She claims she was jealous of Mattie and Ethan.
(c) She claims she was too cold to sleep.
(d) She claims she was worried about them in the storm.

4. Wharton compares Mattie's hair to "a drift of mist on the moon," which suggests ___________________________.
(a) Logic and reality.
(b) Fantasy and impermanence.
(c) Fear and doom.
(d) Ugliness and coarseness.

5. Ethan knows Zeena has made plans because _____________________________________.
(a) She has ordered a taxi to take her to town.
(b) She is wearing her pajamas.
(c) She is still in bed when he gets home.
(d) She is dressed in traveling clothes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Most of the story takes place during which season?

2. Zeena does not want to move from Starkfield because ________________________________________.

3. Mattie confesses her fear that ____________________________.

4. What gives Ethan's kitchen a "homelike look?"

5. Because Ethan is too afraid to touch Mattie, he settles for _______________________________.

(see the answer key)

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